A Tennessee man accused of sexually assaulting a 16-month-old child is now in custody after being captured in Alabama, police said.Simon Dean Porter, 33, of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, was arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama Sunday morning, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Porter was added the bureau's Top 10 Most Wanted list last week after authorities were notified about the assault by physicians at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Porter was wanted on a charge of aggravated rape.Porter's mother, Barbara Wright, urged her son to turn himself in on Friday."Son please bring yourself in," Wright told WKRN. "I love you so much son. I don't want you to get hurt. I don't want nothing to happen to you. Do the right thing, you know you didn't do this, please bring yourself in, prove to them you are innocent."

A Tennessee man accused of sexually assaulting a 16-month-old child is now in custody after being captured in Alabama, police said.

Simon Dean Porter, 33, of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, was arrested in Scottsboro, Alabama Sunday morning, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

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Porter was added the bureau's Top 10 Most Wanted list last week after authorities were notified about the assault by physicians at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Porter was wanted on a charge of aggravated rape.

Porter's mother, Barbara Wright, urged her son to turn himself in on Friday.

"Son please bring yourself in," Wright told WKRN. "I love you so much son. I don't want you to get hurt. I don't want nothing to happen to you. Do the right thing, you know you didn't do this, please bring yourself in, prove to them you are innocent."